Hans Uszkoreit is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Dept. of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics of Saarland University at Saarbrücken. Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Head of DFKI Language Technology Lab.

Uszkoreit studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Texas. He began working in a traslation research at the Linguistics Research Center, where he began his succesful career. He worked as a computer scientist at the Artificial Intelligence center of SRI International in Melon Park as well.

In 1988 Uszkoreit was appointed to a newly created chair of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University and started the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics. In 1989 he became the head of the newly founded Language Technology Lab at DFKI. He has been a co-founder and principal investigator of the Special Collaborative Research Division (SFB 378) “Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes” of the DFG (German Science Foundation). He is also co-founder and professor of the “European Postgraduate Program Language Technology and Cognitive Systems”, a joint Ph.D. program with the University of Edinburgh.

Uszkoreit is Permanent Member of the International Committee of Computational Linguistics (ICCL), Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Past President of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information, Member of the Executive Board of the European Network of Language and Speech, Member of the Board of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), and serves on several international editorial and advisory boards.  He is co-founder and Board Member of XtraMind Technologies GmbH, Saarbruecken, acrolinx gmbh, Berlin and Yocoy Technologies GmbH, Berlin. Since 2006, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the international initiative dropping knowledge.

His current research interests are computer models of natural language understanding and production, advanced applications of language and knowledge technologies such as semantic information systems, translingual technologies, cognitive foundations of language and knowledge, deep linguistic processing of natural language, syntax and semantics of natural language and the grammar of German.

 

 

 

Sources:

• Hans Uszkoreit. Retrieved March 12, 2008, from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/
• Hans Uszkoreit. (2007). What is Language Technology? Language Technology Lab. Retrieved March 18, 2008, from http://www.dfki.de/lt/lt-general.php
• Language Technology, A first overview. Hans Uszkoreit. Retrieved March 11, 2008, from  http://www.dfki.de/~hansu/LT.pdf